In "The Yellow Wallpaper" by Charlotte Perkins Stetson, it is clear by the end of the story that the main character has gone insane. There are several key phrases in the woman's journal that point to the idea that being kept in confinement is what made her crazy. For example, the couple leases a house in the country, remote and isolated. The woman is not allowed the room she wants, but is instead put in the old nursery, where "the windows are...
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